nin wrote on Feb 26, 2015, 09:49:Man that would be cool. Wait. Hey! I actually liked Alien3. I guess I am alone on this planet in thinking it was a great film that put one of my favorite directors on the map.

I liked the unofficial Fincher cut, but even still, killing Hicks and Newt right off the bat (Newt being Ripley's driving focus for most of the second movie) was extremely low.

The Fincher cut had a better structure but was still very ponderous and weird. Alien 3 isn't an awful movie by any stretch of the imagination but it feels really out of place with the rest of the franchise.

I'm not sure if Fincher got his start from it or not but Seven and Fight Club were what made me a fan of his.

I've always just used a modmic + my regular headphones. The gaming headsets always seem to have mediocre sound (to my ears anyway) and tend to break after a few years. The modmic guy needs to be better about keeping stuff in stock though, a few times I've referred people to him and he hasn't had anything available for weeks.

Dagnamit wrote on Feb 25, 2015, 12:42:Does anyone know if the XBone could support hardware upgrades? Seems to me like with the API you could sell an upgraded Xbone or an upgrade kit with out changing out the primary SoC that's already being sold. Shift the costs of upgraded games to devs, who need to code the support into the game, who can then turn around and charge $80.00 for the HD version.

It can't support any real upgrades outside of storage. They would need a whole new hardware revision for a new SoC. Hardware upgrades on consoles defeats the whole purpose of a stable hardware platform anyway, no one has really done it with notable success.

Cutter wrote on Feb 24, 2015, 18:44:Um no Vern. Cheap upper management refusing to pony up the dough for real security is literally always the problem.

Having actually worked IT in my life, I will be the first to fault management where appropriate and for always cutting IT when profits dip. That said, its not 'literally always the problem', there are plenty of dysfunctional IT departments that are their own worst enemy and a big part of the job is doing well within budget constraints.

Wow, we have zero common ground on this topic if you don't think she should even have to do the necessary research about the things shes complaining about in the first place. I can't believe you posted that.

I'm going to click on a happy thread and forget I even bothered with this one haha.

I'm struggling to even recall who Brianna Wu is, refresh my memory. Something a bit more objective than breitbart. Is the wikipedia entry on her correct? I am really not understanding why either side really cares what she has to say.

Haha whatever, it's totally fair. I'm not even convinced she actually plays the games herself. I watched one of her videos about Dying Light, a game I've played to completion and she talks about a trope in the game that was completely false and the writers went on to subvert the very trope she was bitching about. Anyone who played it would've immediately understood. It was absolutely cherry picking, a "trope" on the surface that was actually a subversion. It struck me as something that she got from one of her little groupies and decided to run with. She's in it for the money and recognition and all of the apologism surrounding her is only slightly less distasteful to me than the hardcore gamergate people.

ForgedReality wrote on Feb 24, 2015, 10:44:What the fuck is this "GamerGate" nonsense and why the hell should I give a fuck about any of these people?

Some idiot named Sarsleezian wants money and fame so shes cherry picking tropes in video games because <supposedly legit reasons that are in fact bullshit>. Some people are super duper angry at her so they made a dumb hashtag and then they had all had stupid twitter/4chan wars until everyone got tired of it and told both sides to shut the fuck up. Now it creeps up in the press every few weeks for some silly reason.

There's a bunch of other dumb stuff that came before it (Zoe Quinn, the press being retarded etc) but that's the tl;dr of these days.

Muscular Beaver wrote on Feb 23, 2015, 09:05:I dont get how CS:GO stays up there that long. Im getting the feeling its because of banned hackers that are buying a new one twice a week...

It's just very popular. Low barrier of entry, lots of community additions to the game and its an FPS. Not much else to it.

So were many other FPS games. They didnt stay on top for 3 years, not even close.The only similar inflation Ive seen in an FPS was on Americas Army. And we all know it was a cheaterfest, you couldnt find a single server without a cheater.

In addition Counter-Strike has a built in player base and a lot of free marketing from Steam. I don't know, doesn't seem like much of a puzzle to me I guess.